Street-lamp sign



(No Model.)

J. STEWART. STREET LAMP SIGN No. 408,199. Patented July 30, 1889.

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JOHN STEIVART, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STREET-LAMP SIGN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,199, dated July 30,1889.

Application filed April 19, 1889. Serial No. 307,773. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STEWART, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Street-Lamp Signs, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device attached toa gas-lamp, a small portion being in section to show the manner ofattachment to the lamp. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through one side ofthe device. Fig. 3 is an inside view of a portion of the device. Fig. isa top view of a portion of the device. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of thedevice attached to another form of lamp from that shown in Fig. 1, andshowing another method of attaching it. Fig. 6 is a top View of thedevice as applied in Fig. 5, a small portion being in section.

This invention relates to street-lamp signs designed, primarily, for useon what are known as boulevard-lamps, and has forits objects toconstruct a sign that can be easily secured in position, and which canbe cheaply and readily repaired in case any of the glass portion isbroken, all as illustrated in the drawings, and hereinafter described.

That which I claim as new will be set forth in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents what is termed a boulevard-lamp.

a a are Wires.

1) are pieces of metal soldered or otherwise secured to the wires a a,as shown.

0 c are pieces of sheet metal, a piece d being bent around each wire, asshown in Fig. 2. Each strip 0 is of sufficient width to extend somedistance beyond the wire a, around which it is bent. The piece aroundthe upper wire projects above and the piece around the lower wireprojects below. The free edge of each piece 0 is notched, as shown inFig. 4, leaving projections d.

e are pieces of glass, which rest at each end against one of the pieces0, and are held in position by some or all of the projections d, whichare bent over and against the glass pieces 9, as shown. Some of theglass pieces are provided with letters or figures, formed thereon in anysuitable manner, while other pieces are left plain, as shown.

Then the sign is to be secured to a boulevard-lamp of the form shown inFig. 1, only a part of the projections dare turned over against theglass pieces a, while the rest of the projections 01 are bent around themetal frame of the lamp.

By constructing a street-lamp sign in the manner described it can bereadily attached to and detached from a lamp, and if any of the piecesof glass 6 be broken they can be readily replaced by correspondingpieces without removing any of the other pieces, all that is necessaryto be done being to bend back the projections d, that hold such pieces,when the broken pieces can be removed and the new pieces inserted, andthe projections (Z bent back as before.

By making the glass portion of the sign of a number of pieces, as hereshown and described, the cost of making the sign is considerably lessthan would be the case if curved strips of glass were used, and the costof repairs is also much less, as it will not generally be necessary toreplace but a few of the pieces e at one time.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown a modification in the manner of attachingthe sign to a boulevard-lamp of the kind shown in Fig. 5. hen used withthis style of lamp, the projections d are all to be turned over againstthe glass pieces e, and the device is to be attached to the ornamentalflange g on the lamp by bolts passing through said flange and throughears or lugs f, secured to the sign.

, WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A street-lamp sign composed of the wires a a, connected together bystrips 1), in combination with the pieces 0 o, secured one to each wirea, and provided with projections d, and the glass pieces e, fittedtherein, substantially as specified.

JOHN STEWART.

lVitnesses:

ALBERT H. ADAMS, HARRY T. J ONES.

